English [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Middle English reptil Old French reptile Late Latin rēptile reptilis ( “ creeping ” ) , from Latin rēpō ( “ to creep ” ) , from Proto-Indo-European *rep- ( “ to creep, slink ” ) (Pokorny; Watkins, 1969).
Pronunciation [ edit ] reptile (plural reptiles
A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia
( figuratively ) A mean or grovelling person.
This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.
Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers
"That reptile ," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!" Hyponyms [ edit ] Related terms [ edit ]
Translations [ edit ]
a cold-blooded vertebrate
Abkhaz: please add this translation if you can
Afrikaans: reptiel
Albanian: rrëshqanor (sq)
Arabic: زَحَّافَة f ( zaḥḥāfa )
Aragonese: please add this translation if you can
Armenian: սողուն (hy) ( sołun ) , զեռուն (hy) ( zeṙun )
Asturian: reptil
Avar: please add this translation if you can
Azerbaijani: sürünən pl sürünənlər
Bashkir: please add this translation if you can
Basque: narrasti
Belarusian: рэпты́лія f ( reptýlija ) , паўзу́н (be) m ( paŭzún )
Bengali: সরীসৃপ ( sôrisrip )
Bishnupriya Manipuri: please add this translation if you can
Breton: stlejvil
Bulgarian: влечу́го (bg) n ( vlečúgo )
Burmese: တွားသွားကောင် (my) ( twa:swa:kaung )
Catalan: rèptil m
Chechen: please add this translation if you can
Chinese:
Cantonese: 爬蟲類 爬虫类 ( paa4 cung4 leoi6 )
Mandarin: 爬行類 (zh) , 爬行类 (zh) ( páxínglèi ) , 爬蟲類 (zh) , 爬虫类 (zh) ( páchónglèi )
Min Nan: 爬蟲 爬虫 ( pâ-thiông )
Corsican: please add this translation if you can
Crimean Tatar: sürüngen
Czech: plaz (cs) m
Danish: krybdyr (da) n reptil (da) n
Dhivehi: please add this translation if you can
Dutch: reptiel (nl) n
Esperanto: reptilio
Estonian: roomajad
Faroese: skriðdýr skriðdjór n
Finnish: matelija (fi)
French: reptile (fr) m
Friulian: please add this translation if you can
Galician: réptil
Georgian: ქვეწარმავალი ( kvec̣armavali )
German: Kriechtier (de) n Reptil (de) n Wurm (de) m ( poetic )
Greek: ερπετό (el) ( erpetó )
Ancient: ἑρπετόν n ( herpetón )
Hawaiian: moʻo
Hebrew: זוֹחֵל m ( zoħél )
Hindi: सर्पणशील ( sarpaṇśīl ) , सरीसृप (hi) ( sarīsŕp )
Hungarian: hüllő (hu)
Icelandic: skriðdýr (is) n
Ido: reptero (io)
Indonesian: reptil (id)
Interlingua: reptile
Interlingue: reptile
Irish: reiptíl f
Italian: reptilia f rettile (it) m
Japanese: 爬虫 ( はちゅう, hachū ) , 爬虫類 (ja) ( はちゅうるい, hachūrui )
Javanese: please add this translation if you can
Kazakh: бауырымен жорғалаушылар ( bawırımen jorğalawşılar ) , рептилия ( reptïlïya )
Khmer: ល្មូន ( lmoon ) , ឧរង្គសត្វ ( u rong sat )
Korean: 파충류 (ko) ( pachungnyu ) (爬蟲類 (ko) ), 파충 ( pachung ) (爬蟲 (ko) )
Kurdish: please add this translation if you can
Kyrgyz: рептилия ( reptiliya )
Lao: ເລືອຄານ ( lư̄a khān )
Latin: reptilia (la)
Latvian: rāpuļi
Limburgish: reptiele
Lithuanian: roplys m
Low German:
German Low German: Krüüpdeer Kruupdeer
Luxembourgish: Reptil n
Macedonian: влекач m ( vlekač )
Malay: reptilia binatang reptilia haiwan reptilia
Malayalam: ഉരഗം (ml) ( uragaṃ )
Maltese: please add this translation if you can
Marathi: सर्प्ट्णारा प्रािण ( sarpṭṇārā prāiṇ )
Mongolian: хэвлээр явагч ( hevleer javagč )
Navajo: naaldlooshii dadichʼízhii
Norwegian:
Bokmål: krypdyr (no) n reptil (no) n
Nynorsk: krypdyr n reptil n
Novial: reptere
Occitan: reptilia
Ossetian: хилӕгой ( xilægoj )
Persian: خزنده (fa) ( xazande )
Polish: gad (pl) m
Portuguese: réptil (pt) m
Quechua: suchuq
Romanian: reptilă (ro)
Romansch: reptil m
Russian: пресмыка́ющееся (ru) n ( presmykájuščejesja ) , репти́лия (ru) f ( reptílija ) , гад (ru) m ( gad ) ( colloquial: includes reptiles, amphibians, molluscs, etc. )
Samogitian: ruoplē
Sanskrit: सरीसृप (sa) ( sarīsṛpa )
Scottish Gaelic: snàigean m pèist f
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: гмаз m гмизавац m рептил m
Roman: gmaz (sh) m gmizavac (sh) m reptil m
Sicilian: rettili (scn) m
Slovak: plaz m
Slovene: plazílec (sl) m
Spanish: reptil (es) m
Sundanese: réptil
Swahili: please add this translation if you can
Swedish: kräldjur (sv) n reptil (sv) c
Tagalog: bayabag
Tajik: рептилия ( reptiliya )
Tamil: ஊர்வன (ta) ( ūrvaṉa )
Telugu: సరీసృపం (te) ( sarīsr̥paṃ )
Thai: สัตว์เลื้อยคลาน ( sàt léuay klaan )
Turkish: sürüngen (tr)
Turkmen: süýreniji
Tuvan: соястаарлар ( soyastaarlar )
Ukrainian: плазу́н m ( plazún ) , репти́лія f ( reptýlija )
Upper Sorbian: łažaki
Uzbek: reptiliya
Vietnamese: động vật bò sát loài bò sát (vi)
Volapük: räptul (vo)
Welsh: ymlusgiad (cy)
West Frisian: reptyl
Yiddish: רעפּטיליע f ( reptilye ) , שרץ m ( sherets )
Zazaki: xuzande
Adjective [ edit ] reptile (not comparable )
Creeping; moving on the belly, or by means of small and short legs.
Grovelling; low; vulgar.
a reptile race or crew; reptile vices Burke
There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.
Coleridge
And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men. See also [ edit ] Anagrams [ edit ] Etymology [ edit ] Borrowed from Latin rēptilis
reptile m plural reptiles
reptile Derived terms [ edit ] Further reading [ edit ] Adjective [ edit ] rēptile
neuter nominative singular of rēptilis neuter accusative singular of rēptilis neuter vocative singular of rēptilis
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